Whatever You Do, Don’t Ask My Husband To Take Your Photo

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One of my projects today was renewing my passport online and I needed a headshot photo to upload with my application. I knew better, but I asked hubby to take the photo for me. I really didn’t have any other choice. But you see here’s the thing: hubby was a police detective for many many years. He is very competent at taking photos of dead bodies. But he can’t take a good photograph of anything to save his life. Well, at least not anything that’s alive. He doesn’t seem to have a sense of centering, focal point, symmetry, or lighting. It’s our running joke. He knows he’s terrible at it. When I asked him to take my picture, he told me to lay down on the floor and he would chalk outline me and take my picture.